The Hennessey Clipper. (Hennessey, Okla.), Vol. 12, No. 41, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 6, 1902 Page: 1 of 8
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The hennessey Clipper.
VOL. XII.
HENNESSEY, KINGFISHER COUNTY, OKLAHOMA, THURSDAY, MARCH ti, 1902.
NO. 41.
ROOSEVELT SCARED HIM.
Kansas City Politician Tells How
Things Are Being Managed in
the White House.
From K. ( '. Journal.
Now that he has been back
from Washington so long, and
meantime so many local politi-
cians have returned, a Kansas
City man is tolling how things
are run at the White House. He
told of it the day he got back
from his visit, but insisted that
nothing be said until his tracks
could be well covered up by the
lapse of time. The politician's
story ran:
"In the first place, it is not
like it was when Major McKinley
was in charge. If we went to
the major with a 'boost' that he
did not like, he had you talking
a blue streak about horses or
some other personal fad before
you knew it and was bowing you
out of the door and urging you
to promise to drop around again
the next day and talk over 'that
other matter' with him when
both of you 'would have more
time.' The McKinley 'jolly' was
the worst thing that ever happen-
ed for the officeseeker or the
booster, because it left him with-
out an argument, and his cause
was gone, while still holding his
allegiance to the president.
"When I was ushered into the
room where President Roosevelt
was, I found six bunches of fel-
lows in there. I looked around
for a place to light, and found
one near a corner. As soon as
I started to scan the faces at my
leisure, I had my attention direct
ed in another direction by a man
shouting out, 'And that settles it
so far as I am concerned.'
Thunder, it was the president!
He was bellowing away like a
skipper at a landlubber. I was
prepared for seeing the presi-
dent in a crowd, but not for such
a deal as that. The next thing I
knew, he left the crowd he had
been talking to and walked over
to another. Then there was a
conference in that quarter. The
visitors talked in an undertone
so that 1 could not hear. I need
not say that I did not want to
hear, merely remarking as I did
to indicate the volume of tone.
When it came for the president
to reply the man in the next
room could not have helped hear-
ing. He simply talked right out
loud. In this instance it happen-
ed to be a satisfactory one and
made tin* balance of us feel good.
I had to stand that sort of thing
for perhaps ten minutes, by
which time the president had
swung around to me.
wanted to talk ten or fifteen
minutes to him and told him so.
I said that in such a way that a
gentleman, the only other person
in the room, could not hear me,
but he soon learned what I had
asked. 'Give you ten or fifteen
I had i the bill provides for the sale of , romarked:
'public lands, an amendment has j "Greece her knees once more
been made giving preference
rights to the lessees.
Section eleven is stricken out
of the original bill. The provi-
sion providing a reservation of
one and one-half million acres
aSKeu. UrlVU JUU tun UI uinccu vru*j aim wn> , ^ , ,...i
minutes?'the president shouted. I for irrigation and other purposes 1<ls p* onus*- 1 t,
'I could not give a dozen of you j is amended by providing for ad- 1 14 \oun_s tr
ten minutes. I would not have 'ditional reserves of 200,000 acres
time to eat if I did that. Any- I for university; 250,000 acres ad-
how,' he went on, 'I know all
about that matter in Missouri,
and it is all decided upon. I do
not care what they do, my mind
is made up.' By the time he
uttered the end of the last sen-
tence he had reached the other
ditional for normal schools and
650,000 acres to be disposed of
as the legislature of the state
may prescribe.
The above reservation and en-
dowments are in addition to the
reservation of sections 16, H6,
l/vuvv I 1 VOV/1 Ui mv/v •• 7 7
| man I spoke of. It did not mat- aiui in the various townships |
ter to him that four men from previously reserved The meet-j
Indiana had walked in to hear jUg ()f the committee called for j
what was to be said to me. For n(Jxt Friday is to decide whether |
! all they could have known, I was the bills for the admissions of.
I being skinned alive, whereas, Oklahoma, Arizona and New j
j the reverse was the case, and the Mexico shall be bunched and
knock I was heading off was voted upon as one bill or whether
Theodore; perhaps she'll go
then."
LITTLE ENGLISH.
A gentleman by the name of
R. II. Ramey, from Carthage, 111.
'English,"
the youngster who has been tak-
en up by the kind hearted of
the city, clothed, given a home,
and is being sent to school, that
if he will attend school and not
miss a day unless kept out by
sickness, that at the end of the
term he will deposit ten dollars
in the bank for him. "English'
is after the ten, and says it is as
good as his.—El Reno American.
DEAD
JAMES. R. WOOD, NUMBER I, DIES
Af MALVERN, ARK.
Hot Springs, Ark., March 5.—
James R. Wood of Lawton, who
headed off for me." 1 they shall be separated and pass-
"But as you got what you went e(i or rejected singly.
nfhorV" !
drew the first prize in the gov
ernment land drawing and laid
his claim over half the city of
Lawton, died at Malvern, Ar
kansas, a small connection on
the Hot Springs road tonight.
He had been ill of malarial fever
and was going back to his home
I that he is today, says the Times in company with his uncle Mr.
I , , . '. .. Kimmel, unable to care for lnm-
j Herald, but this is not a matter !gejj He was on a stretcher, and
S of surprise, as precocity is | as the cot was being placed in
of greatness al- | the train at Malvern, the train
after?" '
"That's true, but it was a new
experience to me. I had never
seen such disregard for privacy , g thg fluent orat()r and
in the handling of political affairs • r extemporaneous speaker
before." —
GOOD ADVICE.
Theodore Roosevelt was not
STATEHOOD.
From El Reno American. . ,,
, ,, never a proot
We have received the Flynn j
bill
con
find
original draft of the bill as pre
pared by our representative. but at hi, .porta, a lover
The .eetion relative to the Indian luJal|out doors_ aI)d ., healthy>
hearty, sturdv American boy.
We have received the *'y™ j thoUf,h it has in many instances started to move. TI
bill as finally agreed upon by the | characterized those ' who after- j the man caused him
congressional committee and we; denly of heart tauur
. \ « i /■ at wards became great. 1 heodore did not fall froi
and very few changes from the „a.t „ wide-awake. 17.T ." l.t
Roosevelt was a wide-awake,
hustling youth,good at his books,
Territory was not changed.
The proposition for a second con-
stitutional convention in the
event of a failure of the first one
was stricken out.
Delegate Flynn's earnest and
vigorous efforts to secure three
representatives in congress was
overruled and we secure two in-
stead. This failure was on ac
count of all other districts being
based on the last census and the
committee applied the same rule
here.
Section 8 of the original bill
was stricken out and in lieu
thereof a section inserted pro-
viding for a division of section
thirteen of the public lands, to
bo reserved for school purposes
and to be divided among the
university, the agricultural col-
lege and normal schools, each re-
ceiving one third, and section
thirty-three, reserved for chari-
table and penal institutions, is to
be apportioned and disposed of
as the legislature of the state
mav elect. In all cases where
At school he was required to
write essays, deliver orations
and "speak pieces" just as are
school boys in these modern days
The shock to
to die sud-
e though the
_jdy did not fall from the sup-
port of the men who were hold-
ing it in the attempt to put it on
the train.
HOGG DRAWS THE LINE.
Refuses to Don British Court Dress
to Meet King Edward.
London, March 1.—Former
and his playmates still delight Gov. Hogg, of Texas, though busy
to relate how "Ted" brought the in P "ing the finishing
, . . . J touches to his Texas oil deal, has
house down in his rendition of | had time to look up the social
the old standby Marco-Bozzaris." | sije ()f this country, which he is
Every body knows at least the visiting for the first time. All
the arrangements had been com-
pleted with the United States
ambassador, Joseph H. Choate,
bent, to enable the well-known Texan
, to be presented to King Edward
When young Roosevelt's time! at the forthcoming levee. A
i ? j i _n l.lt-Vi<\«Tnvnf
beginning of the stirring poem:
At midnight in her guarded tent
The Turk lay dreaming of the hour
When Greece her knees lr. supplianef
Should tremble at his power.
came to speak he rose with
confidence, and began:—
At midnight in her guarded tent
The Turk lay dreaming of the hour
When (ireece her knees
Then his memory
and he repeated, —
Greece her knees
In vain; his memory stubborn-
ly refused to work. Once more
he shouted desperately,
Oreece her knees
The old professor looked over
his spectacles and encouragingly
all hitch occurred, however, for Mr,
Hogg found he must appear in
knee breeches, sword, etc., the
regulation court dress.
"Never," said Mr. Hogg, "if I
failed him ' cannot appear in the ordinary
evening dress of an American
citizen I will not appear at all. A
pretty sight I would look rigged
up in these gewgaws. I have
not the faintest idea of trying to
revolutionize or even criticise an-
other country's uniform—no, not
even for English customs, but
blamed if I'll wear it for the sake
of meeting the king."
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Miller, L. G. The Hennessey Clipper. (Hennessey, Okla.), Vol. 12, No. 41, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 6, 1902, newspaper, March 6, 1902; Hennessey, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc104980/m1/1/: accessed June 5, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.